Re: MY pet peeves
Inaccurate to what? The third spelling more accurately represents the second of the two pronunciations you give, which has a reduced vowel in the second syllable "kuh". So far as I know, unless it's pronounced "you"/"yuh", an unstressed vowel spelled "u" in English can't be reduced to "uh". That is, English speakers would expect a spelling "ukulele" to be pronounced "you-kyuh-lay-lee", according to ordinary spelling conventions, like such words as "accurate", "annual".
Originally posted by Leo Lakio
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